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Individual Differences and Development in Organisations (Wiley Handbooks in Work & Organizational Psychology)
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Organisations, of all kinds, are facing the challenge of rapidly advancing technologies, and ever-increasing levels of competition, both nationally and globally. They are also seeking to operate in an environment where the traditional relationships between employer and employee are rapidly changing.
Learning to harness the talents of everyone comprising an organisation is critical to sustainable organisational effectiveness. Successfully developing the talents of all members of an organization is, arguably, the only lasting source of competitive advantage.
This handbook provides a unique and authoritative review of relevant research, theoretical developments, and current best practice in the management of individual development.
Drawing on the expertise of both renowned academic specialists and leading practitioners, the book is designed to be a practical resource for the guidance and support of those whose role is to bring about the development of people at work.
- Authoritative reviews of relevant evaluation research, and best-practice descriptions of key assessment and development tools
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"How can we maintain competitive advantage in a rapidly changing environment and at the same time create and sustain organisations in which people thrive both materially and psychologically? While organisations are facing the twin challenges of advancing technologies and increasing levels of competition, successfully developing and retaining the talents of all its members is key to organisational effectiveness. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND DEVELOPMENT IN ORGANISATIONS is a wide-ranging review of research, theoretical developments and current best practice for HR consultants, managers, academics and advanced students in psychology. Michael Pearn has assembled a comprehensive collection of renowned academic specialists and leading practitioners to provide academic research findings and practice-relevant information on a variety of subjects. These include: whether competencies exist; the meaning of Emotional Intelligence; whether personality influences performance; what turns an assessment centre into a development centre; whether development resources should be concentrated on the most gifted; methods of developing diversity; and using networks to enhance learning. This authoritative handbook will prove an invaluable tool for those charged with the development of people in organizations in today's climate of constant change.
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In this edited volume, leading edge researchers discuss the link between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and workplace performance. Contributors from many areas such as social science, management (including organizational practitioners), and psychologists have come together to develop a better understanding of how EI can influence work performance, and whether research supports it. A unique feature of this book is that it integrates the work of social scientists and organizational practitioners. Their mutual interests in EI provide a unique opportunity for basic and applied research and practices to learn from one another in order to continually refine and advance knowledge on EI. The primary audience for this book is researchers, teachers, and students of psychology, management, and organizational behavior. Due to its clear practical applications to the workplace, it will also be of interest to organizational consultants and human resource practitioners.
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LEADING-EDGE RESEARCH AND MULTIPLE VIEWS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE........2005-09-06
The book's primary purposes are
1. to share leading edge research on the link between emotional intelligence (EI) and workplace performance and
2. to examine EI from a variety of vantage points, each with somewhat different ideas about EI.
The key question the book addresses is: Does EI influence work performance? The book's contributions do not allow the reader to come to a simple answer to this key question, but are extremely insightful and enlightening and, I believe, strongly suggest EI is a valid concept and has a crucial link to performance.
The contributions are all first-rate. As research-based chapters, the efforts of the contributors will appeal to academicians, but will also be appreciated by human resource professionals and line executives who want to probe into this critical topic more deeply than the plethora of books on EI spewing forth from a booming EI cottage industry. The book will be especially appealing to all who are interested in organizational psychology and behavior. Very highly recommended.
WHAT LEADING-EDGE RESEARCH REVEALS + MANY VIEWS OF EI.......2005-09-06
The book's primary purposes are
1. to share leading edge research on the link between emotional intelligence (EI) and workplace performance and
2. to examine EI from a variety of vantage points, each with somewhat different ideas about EI.
The key question the book addresses is: Does EI influence work performance? The book's contributions do not allow the reader to come to a simple answer to this key question, but are extremely insightful and enlightening and, I believe, strongly suggest EI is a valid concept and has a crucial link to performance.
The contributions are all first-rate. As research-based chapters, the efforts of the contributors will appeal to academicians, but will also be appreciated by human resource professionals and line executives who want to probe into this critical topic more deeply than the plethora of books on EI spewing forth from a booming EI cottage industry. The book will be especially appealing to all who are interested in organizational psychology and behavior. Very highly recommended.
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Save time with ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: INTEGRATING INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND ORGANIZATIONS! Clear and concise, this management text provides you with the tools you need to be successful in this course. Biz Flix boxes, found in every chapter, highlight short film scenes and exercises that help you relate to the chapter material. Examples found throughout make the material easy to understand. Online features such as exercises and practice problems will help reinforce your knowledge of chapter content and master difficult content.
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Excellent.......2000-05-20
An Excellent Book For All The Managers In Every Organization....... A Must Read
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MArvellus.......2000-05-19
I read this book and everybody (high school or Master level) can read. Is not a heavy book. I recommended for all pourposes.
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an excellent seller.......2007-07-07
The item was better than advertised, the shipment was prompt, the service excellent and friendly. I highly recommend this seller.
A masterful guide to designing a better world.......2002-12-25
In 1970 I taught from this book when it was entitled
"Choice, Communication and Conflict"
What makes this book "magical" is Ackoff (from his
management and behavioral science roots) provides
"operational definitions" for many ill-defined words
and concepts -- from defining 'knowledge' & 'understanding'
to providing definitions of feelings/emotions that --
operationally -- you know -- that if certain events take
place in a person's life, that you know the feeling they
have.
This is only a glimmer of what this book is about. In
terms of Kuhn's idea of "paradigm shifts" -- this book
represents a shift that has yet to be appreciated, thirty
years later !
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Advanced Theory of Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy gives an account of Adlerian therapy and counseling from its origins to the present day. It also proposes an advanced version of the theory in which the main principles and concepts of Adler's thinking are re-examined from a contemporary perspective, placing them in the context of other contemporary approaches. Adler's techniques are described then applied to an understanding of what an Adlerian approach to family life would look like, using clinical examples throughout. The authors analyze the possible contribution of Adlerian theory in the context of the challenges of postmodern thought and postmodern society. It will be invaluable to professionals, practitioners and students of counseling and psychotherapy.
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Academic study of vital concepts.......2001-05-03
This is a British contribution to the field. It is discerning and scholarly. Different concepts are clearly distinguished and defined. The authors have critically assessed the literature of diverse models of cognitive styles and only accept two basic dimensions --the wholistic-analytic (tendency to organise information into wholes or parts) and the verbal-imagery (tendency to represent information verbally or in mental pictures). Cognitive style is an independent construct or psychological notion, not related to intelligence, personality and gender. It is an important component of individual differences. It is related to a range of behaviours, including learning performance, social responses and occupational stress. Style (fairly fixed with probable physiological basis) is also distinct from learning strategy (can be learned). Riding and Cheema (1991) have developed a computer-based assessment tool, Cognitive Styles Analysis (CSA). Riding also has a booklet on Personal Style Aswareness (PSA) for personal development. All the representative learning style models associated with a learning-centred tradition are also evaluated. Part II elaborates on the relationship of style with behaviour. This is an academic book valuable for understanding the concepts. It is not immediately useful for teachers.
It' s a SPECÝAL book for educators and stuents........2000-06-07
I think all of the students and educators must read this book. Because of learning strategies are very important in learning process. And want to know that "How we learn ?". The answers are here...
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We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet! What if it's not that simple? In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Tom Slee unpacks the implications of our fervent belief in the power of choice. Pointing out that individual choice has become the lynchpin of a neoconservative corporate ideology he calls MarketThink, he urges us to re-examine our assumptions . Slee makes use of game theory to argue that individual choice is not inherently bad. Nor is it the societal fix-all that our corporations and governments claim it is. A spirited treatise, this book will make you think about choice in a whole new way.
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An orthodox economic rebuttal to the naive idea of consumer choice.......2007-10-02
The title of this book is actually ironic: Slee's claim is that the choices of other consumers often force you to do things you don't want to do. A "choice" shouldn't be viewed as an atomic economic act; real choices are entangled with what everyone else chooses to do. You choose to buy Us Weekly at the grocery store, and so do a million of your compatriots, and pretty soon that's all that's available for *me* in the checkout aisle. No one "chose" for that to happen, but that's how it worked out. Choices are constrained by other choices.
Slee wraps this all up beautifully: you should think of "best response" rather than "preference": what you choose to do is not a direct expression of what you prefer, as naïve choice theory would have it; rather, what you choose is the best response to everyone else's choices -- and theirs are best responses to yours.
The classic example of a best response that leads to a disappointing outcome is the prisoner's dilemma: each prisoner, when deciding how to act, realizes that no matter what the other prisoner does, it would be in his best interest to rat his partner out. If my partner rats me out, then I'm better off ratting him out than staying quiet. Likewise, if my partner stays quiet, I'm better off ratting him out. So no matter what my partner does, I should pick the outcome that makes life worse for both of us.
Slee's book is the best use of economics in a mass-audience context that I've yet seen. And it's entirely rigorous. The argument is perfectly simple and correct. It should be valuable to anyone who believes that the free market will apply a balm to all woes.
This Book is a Keeper.......2007-08-03
I read a copy of this book from the public library, but now I'm buying a copy to keep, which lets you know how much I enjoyed it. It makes an excellent companion to a book like Dixit and Nabebuff's Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life. Both of them are friendly introductions to game theory, but Slee's book is uniquely valuable for two reasons.
First, Dixit and Nalebuff want to teach you about game theory itself, and so are concerned that you learn the right terminology, know how to step backwards through a game tree, get a little sense of the historical development of the theory, and various other things that are mostly important if you want to pass a test on game theory at some point, or intend to read more advanced books later. Slee, on the other hand, wants to attack a political position and uses game theory to do it. Because he wants to use the theory rather than provide a formal introduction, his presentation eliminates jargon, technicalities, and anything else he can throw overboard to lighten the ship. The end result, for me, is a clear, unobstructed view of the raw power of the fundamental ideas of game theory as Slee puts them to work.
Secondly, Slee shows game theory in a different context than usual. Most presentations of game theory, like Dixit and Nalebuff's, primarily use examples that concern rivals and competitors. Even when discussing co-operation, the emphasis is often on the possibility of betrayal and defection. Slee goes in the other direction. Because he wants to talk about how consumer choices in the marketplace impact communities, his examples tend towards situations where people are not consciously competing with each other or even thinking about each other. This change in emphasis highlights a different side of game theory, its exploration of interdependence rather than its exploration of competition. I found that to be refreshing and useful as well.
I don't mean to criticize the Dixit-Nalebuff book; it's very good. But Slee's unusual approach makes his book a welcome and valuable addition, no matter what your politics are.
It should have been called "Introduction to market failure".......2007-07-16
First of all, I'm a libertarian, which makes me the type of person most likely to disagree with Mr. Slee.
I'll start with what this book is not. This book is not a critique of capitalism in general or of the market system. This book is a polemic on what Mr. Slee calls MarketThink, the belief that markets free from government intervention will *always* achieve the public good; as Slee puts it "The subtext for this book is a call for the reinstatement of collective action into politics." This book also serves as a relatively good introduction to the many ways that markets can fail.
On to the content. I really don't know where Slee sees all this MarketThink. Certainly many libertarians are guilty of MarketThink, but I don't know of *any* politician who advocates anything close to free-markets and very few who actively advocate freer markets. Even many educated libertarians say that the government has some role in regulating and correcting markets.
This book covers a wide range of market failures, regular externalities, herd choices, asymmetric information and a few others. Slee also does a good job explaining most of them. He is clear, especially if you have a science background, and he usually uses very good examples, though, once or twice I thought the examples he used were misleading as to the real world applicability of his discussion topic.
A few of the topics discussed in the book are not market failures at all. For example, Slee tries to describe lack of self control (having a large discount rate) as a market failure, which is not even slightly correct. I also though chapter six, "Divide and Conquer," on corporations, was not well thought out because it was not consistent with some of the ideas Slee had discussed earlier in the book.
Slee makes very few policy recommendations, and with good reason, for many of the market failures Slee discusses are essentially impossible for the government to fix without doing things like banning all fancy cars, and some have no readily conceivable government solution. Also, Slee's language gives me the feeling that he does not have a good understanding or awareness of Public Choice economics, which dissects all the ways in which *government* can fail.
On the whole, Slee writes well, his prose is easy to understand and he is quite engaging. He also has a good sense of humor; I laughed out loud several times reading this book.
I would never recommend this book to anyone who has not had at least introductory micro-economics, first, just to be able to understand what Slee is discussing and second, to avoid getting the impression that markets are completely hopeless without government intervention. If you've had at least basic micro-economics, and especially if you have a heavy free-market slant, then I would recommend this book as a fun introduction to market failure, but as with most things, remaining a little skeptical is a good idea.
The more interesting side of economics.......2007-05-20
There is a theory (quite an elegant one, actually) that says that because we live in a marketplace of free choices we end up getting basically what we want -- our dollars are like votes for the society we wish to live in. Many have challenged this view, from a variety of perspectives, but Tom Slee (who calls this notion MarketThink) has chosen to focus on just one: the economic subfield of "game theory".
Slee walks through the major discoveries of game theory, explains them in simple language with reference to a fictional town of Whimsley, and discusses how they refute standard economic conclusions while still playing by basic economic assumptions with effects that appear to show up in the real world.
The book is full of dozens of examples, each with careful analysis and clear writing. Perhaps the most odd feature of the book is its politics. On the one hand, Slee is plainly a committed leftist, with positive references to Naomi Klein and other capitalist critics. But on the other hand, he never gives up on the rational actor and methodological individualist assumptions of modern economics, and shows little patience for those (typically his political allies) who have more thorough-going critiques. Nonetheless, the book is a recommended read for anyone interested in these questions.
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Presented by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, this is the first and only work to offer readers a comprehensive look at individual psychological assessment as currently practiced in business environments. Here, you will examine the best methods and techniques now in use. You will see how assessment is being used to alter organizational cultures and achieve specific business goals. You will discover a framework you can use to make your own practice state-of-the-art. And you will benefit from thought-provoking discussions on issues vital to the field's continued success as well as informed predictions for its future. All of which makes this an essential resource any person concerned with individual psychological assessment should possess.
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